For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

For over sixty years, Sendak's artistic skill has brought to life richly imaginative worlds filled with children, animals and magical creatures.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

He spent the next thirty-four years of his life collecting stones and building a wildly imaginative palace building.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The puppeteers train for many years to move as one in bringing the puppet to life to act in complex theater productions.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Clara Barton really began her life of caring for the sick when she was only eleven years old.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

He wrote a book about the final years in the political life of a long-time mayor of Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

She was eighty-nine years old. In her later years, she was forced to live a simple life because of lack of money.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Tom Farnquist says shipwrecks are exciting because they preserve a detailed picture of maritime life that can be hundreds of years old.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

She was seventy-three years old. She leaves behind a written record of her life and legacy through the words of her poems.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

In later years, he looked back at his marriage to Hadley as the happiest time of his life.

VOA: special.2011.06.19

He worked as a cattleman for several years, then wrote about the heroic life of the cowboy in a book called "The Virginian."

VOA: special.2010.03.18

In fact,by age eighty-five, people are happier with their life than when they are eighteen years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

The housing market is showing new life after three years of falling prices and too much supply.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

From a cave room you can see far up and down the canyon and imagine what life was like there seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05